Tyler Wayne Skaggs, baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels, died at the Hilton Dallas/Southlake Town Square Hotel on July 1st, 2019, aged 27. The Angels were visiting for a four-game series against the Texas Rangers at the time. His death was determined to be an accident after an autopsy found that Skaggs had aspirated on his own vomit and Read more...
Jack Kerouac Alley is located off Columbus Avenue, between Broadway and Pacific Avenue in San Francisco. The now-pedestrianized passageway was renamed in 1988 to recognize the area’s association with Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac who, during visits to San Francisco, had frequented the City Lights bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe bar that flank the alley entrance. The short alley, connecting Columbus Read more...
The San Francisco Marathon starts from Mission Street and The Embarcadero, San Francisco, at 5:30 am. It is held annually on the fourth Sunday in July. Read more...
Anchor Steam Beer is brewed in San Francisco by the Anchor Brewing Company at its brewery on Mariposa Street and De Haro Street in Portero Hill. The company was acquired by Japan’s Sapporo in 2017. Read more...
San Francisco artist Eduardo Aguilera built the circular labyrinth of rocks at Lands End covertly in 2004 and it has become an unofficial attraction off the Coastal Trail near Mile Rock Beach. Despite being vandalized and destroyed many times, public volunteers continue to restore and maintain the creation. Read more...
Actor and stand-up comedian Robin Williams lived in an oceanfront home on Saint Thomas Way in Tiburon’s Paradise Cay with his third wife Susan for five years until his death on August 11th, 2014. He also had a vineyard estate in the Napa Valley. Read more...
In 2016 the city’s Department of Public Works determined that the geographic center of San Francisco was located on Corbett Avenue near the Rooftop Elementary School Twin Peaks campus. A brass surveyor’s disc marking the approximate position was placed in the sidewalk opposite 771 Corbett Avenue but was very quickly stolen. Read more...
The Black Hawk jazz club was located on the corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District and operated from 1949 to 1963. The building was later demolished and the site is now a small parking lot. A plaque in the sidewalk reads: On this corner, the world’s best jazz musicians performed at the Blackhawk. The Read more...
The Beatles’ final live commercial concert took place on August 29th, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, although they performed unannounced in January 1969 on the Apple Corps building rooftop in London. Former Beatle Paul McCartney returned to Candlestick in August 2014 to perform at the last ever event at the sports stadium before it was demolished for redevelopment. Read more...
McLaren San Francisco is actually located in Palo Alto at El Camino Real and Arastradero Road, some 35 miles south of San Francisco. The dealership offers new and used car sales and service facilities. Read more...
Mark Zuckerberg lived in suite H-33 of Harvard University’s Kirkland House. He created the early Facebook website here in 2004 while in his sophomore year. Read more...
Everton FC fans in San Francisco tend to gather to watch live Toffees games at McTeague’s Saloon pub on Polk Street between Bush Street and Fern Street in the Tenderloin district. McTeague’s opens early for live weekend matches. Read more...
Frenchman’s Tower on Old Page Mill Road in Palo Alto is a doorless red brick folly built in 1875 by Frenchman Paulin Caperon, also known as Peter Coutts. Now empty, with windows bricked-up after years of vandalism, the tower reportedly once housed his library on the first floor and a water tank on the second floor for irrigation. The land is now Read more...
The National Debt Clock in New York is on a wall near the Stephen Sondheim Theater, at the entrance to the covered passageway connecting 43rd and 42nd streets between Broadway and 6th Avenue. The digital billboard, operated by the Durst Organization, displays the current United States gross national debt. Read more...
There is a 24 hour Starbucks Coffee in New York City at 43rd and Broadway in Times Square. This busy store is small and has no customer seating or wifi. Read more...
Cyclists can use the Pikes Peak Highway during normal operating hours and tollgate fees apply. It is a grueling climb up a winding paved road to the summit at 14,110 feet, and the weather can be cold and inclement even in Summer. Pikes Peak Highway is open year-round, weather permitting, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Read more...
Commercial production of dynamite in the US started in 1868 at the Giant Powder Works near the site of what is now Glen Park Recreation Center in San Francisco. Producing dynamite under licence from Alfred Nobel, the short-lived factory was destroyed in an explosion in November 1869. Read more...
The bronze statue of Yoda sits on a fountain at the Lucasfilm campus in San Francisco’s Presidio. The fountain is outside Building B at One Letterman Drive, where other Star Wars memorabilia can also be viewed in the lobby during weekdays. Read more...